shocking new video showing the moment an
indianapolis police officer appears to
kick a black man in the face while he's
on the ground in handcuffs
the body cam video which was edited and
released by police shows jermaine vaughn
on his back with his hands cuffed behind
him and an officer on top of him
then police say sergeant eric huxley's
shoe enters the frame and kicks vaughn
in the face you're done
you're done a visibly stunned vaughn
remains on the ground bleeding from his
lip wrong i can't i'm upset
it hurts me to see any of our officers
treat someone the way that you're going
to see here shortly sergeant huxley a
14-year veteran of the force is now
charged with two felonies for official
misconduct and battery resulting in
bodily injury according to court
documents now the u.s attorney general
and fbi launching their own
investigation promising appropriate
action if they find prosecutable
offenses huxley's attorney denies his
client acted illegally or with any
criminal intent and says that he has had
an exemplary career adding in a
statement to nbc news he is very sorry
about any pain caused to mr vaughn as a
result of his actions and the negative
scrutiny upon his department and fellow
officers this incident resulted from his
perception of the need to attempt a
trained police technique that
unfortunately struck mr vaughn in an
unintended area of his body police say
huxley has been suspended without pay my
hope is that the community understands
that when these things come to our
attention we'll deal with them quickly
get those people off the force the
indianapolis metropolitan police
department released the footage amid an
ongoing investigation into the incident
that occurred late last month while
police were responding to a disorderly
conduct call to the credit of this chief
they were forthcoming
and they did not need to be put in a
hammerlock to do that police say the
other two officers involved sergeant
christopher kibby and officer matthew
shores have both been placed on
administrative leave pending an
investigation
all right priscilla thompson joins us
now live on set priscilla that video is
so hard to watch and we have seen other
incidents like this but what is new in
this case and we just heard it there
from that community activist police are
getting some credit because they sort of
brought this video to light themselves
and they investigated it immediately
right so the police chief says that any
time a use of force incident occurs they
go back and review the body cam footage
which is how they recognize that this
had happened but one of the key
questions that remains here according to
court documents in the initial report
that was written by one of the officers
there was no mention of this kick and so
had the police not gone back and
reviewed that body cam footage this may
not have come to light in this way
priscilla thompson we thank you so much
for that
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